The Purpose Climate Lab used the 2015 Papal Encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ on Climate Change as an opportunity to amplify the message of moral action climate change and use the moment to engage and mobilize Catholics, Millennials and others. Our messaging and social media toolkits enabled hundreds of faith-based organizations to capitalize on this call to action, resulting in unprecedented growth for these organizations.
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By conducting message testing and opinion polling, we identified the most effective messages and messengers to communicate with a Millennial audience.
Using the messages and messengers identified in research, we trained partners to amplify the popular Pope Francis call to action.
Stronger, targeted messaging led to list growth and greater engagement with partners from Millennial audiences.
Millennials drove a renewed commitment to meaningful action on climate change from Catholics around the world.
Pope for Planet enabled hundreds of faith based organizations to capitalize on a once in a lifetime call to action from a popular Pope. This resulted in unprecedented growth for these organizations, creating a new climate audience and embedded climate activists in a traditionally conservative audience.
Notably, #PopeForPlanet hashtag drove far more user-generated content than #laudatosi (the hashtag used by the Vatican). 32% of #PopeForPlanet posts were original. #PopeForPlanet reached more than 100 million people on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Purpose coordinated over 300 global partners around shared goals and strategies. Purpose coordinated a Rome meeting of 40 Catholic leaders from India, Africa, South America, the US, Australia, Europe, and the Philippines. In addition, 5 webinar trainings were hosted using our digital media toolkit with 350+ participants representing 160 organizations.
Purpose spearheaded production of creative content in English, Spanish & Portuguese to provide needed digital assets and engagement tools for our Catholic and faith partners. #Popeisdope content that targeted Catholic Millennials prompted unprecedented engagement, and in English speaking media alone, we reached 378 million people.
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